Sounding Images
Sounding Images invited participants to follow their hearts down a creative path, using sound, music, singing bowls, poetry and spoken word as starting points for creating paintings, drawings, and written and recorded work.
Exhibition opening 7.30pm Friday 29th May
Running Wed to Sat, 10am - 4pm daily until Friday 12th June
With an emphasis on sensory awareness, imagination, and memory the project encouraged participants to develop new skills, find their individual creative voice, and respond to the world around them through multiple art forms.
The studio and gallery space was open four days a week throughout May. Facilitators Gerry Carew, Jo Slade and Paula Hynes brought their own expertise to dedicated sessions followed by relaxed open studio time, fostering creativity, community, and fun in equal measure.
Participants explored poetry, creative writing, spoken word, and performance poetry inspired by music and sound, while also discovering how sound is used in contemporary art practice. Pranayama breathwork, Sanskrit mantras, and Tibetan singing bowls provided further pathways into reflection and expression. Throughout the project, participants worked exclusively with clean, plastic-free materials including handmade paper, cotton, and linen canvas, alongside traditional media such as watercolours, pastels, oil paints, and charcoal, as well as inks made from organic materials including berries, plants, and spice.
The project will conclude on Friday 29th May with a celebratory exhibition of works created in At 6s & 7s Gallery, Davis Street, Tipperary Town.
Gerry Carew is an artist and art therapist and owner of At 6s & 7s Gallery in Tipperary. Her art work explores landscape, domestic interiors and connection. She has exhibited in group and solo shows the most recent in Italy. Jo Slade is a full- time poet and artis. Her seventh poetry collection called Once was published by Salmon Poetry in 2025. She has exhibited widely in Ireland and Europe. Paula Hynes is a yoga and breath work facilitator and is presently working on her own poetry collection. She has a keen interest in creativity as a powerful tool for communication.
